24 May EMERGING MARKETS-Brazilian stocks sink amid crippling truckers’ strike
(Updates prices, adds details on Mexican peso)
SAO PAULO, May 25 (Reuters) – Brazil’s main stock market
fell to a five-month low and its real currency weakened on
Friday as the fifth day of a truckers’ protest over fuel prices
hobbled a wide range of industries from aviation to
agribusiness.
The key auto sector ground to a halt, as did Santos, Latin
America’s largest port, while grocers’ aisles went understocked
and long lines formed outside gas stations.
In the afternoon, the fede
SAO PAULO, May 25 (Reuters) – Brazil’s main stock market
fell to a five-month low and its real currency weakened on
Friday as the fifth day of a truckers’ protest over fuel prices
hobbled a wide range of industries from aviation to
agribusiness.
The key auto sector ground to a halt, as did Santos, Latin
America’s largest port, while grocers’ aisles went understocked
and long lines formed outside gas stations.
In the afternoon, the fede
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